[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]
You can integrate devices, printers, and sensors in your Metro style app to create a rich experience for your users. This section shows you how to support a number of devices in your app, like cameras, sensors, and removable storage.
Here are some of the features that you can add to your app:
- An enhanced print experience
- The right motion and orientation sensor for your game
- A light sensor that adjusts screen brightness
- Detection of a user's geographic location
In this section
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Enable your app to use cameras, microphones, location sensors, text messaging, removable storage and near-field proximity. | |
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Use the Windows.Devices.Enumeration and Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp namespaces to enumerate devices. | |
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Provide the same high-quality print experience in your Metro style app that users have come to expect in other Windows applications. | |
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Explore the many varieties of motion, orientation, and light sensor available to Metro style apps. | |
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Create Metro style apps that use sensors to detect and respond to a variety of user movements. | |
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Create Metro style apps that use sensors to detect and respond to changes in ambient light. | |
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Create Metro style apps that detect the user's geographic location. | |
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Create Metro style apps that access content on media and storage devices by using the Windows Portable Devices (WPD) driver technology. |
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Build date: 5/23/2012
